{"id":33609,"date":"2023-05-16T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=33609"},"modified":"2023-05-16T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T13:49:00","slug":"rishi-sunaks-indian-mother-in-law-reveals-uk-border-staff-thought-she-was-joking-about-staying-at-10-downing-street-during-visit-to-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/05\/16\/rishi-sunaks-indian-mother-in-law-reveals-uk-border-staff-thought-she-was-joking-about-staying-at-10-downing-street-during-visit-to-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak&#8217;s Indian mother-in-law reveals UK border staff thought she was joking about staying at 10 Downing Street during visit to Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rishi Sunak&#8217;s Indian mother-in-law has revealed border staff thought she was pranking them about staying in Downing Street during a visit to the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sudha Murty, wife of billionaire Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, said she wrote down the historic address on a form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She told the Kapil Sharma chat show that the border guard looked at her and said: &#8216;Are you joking?&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;I told him, no, I&#8217;m telling you the truth,&#8217; Ms Murty &#8211; mother of the PM&#8217;s wife Akshata &#8211; went on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reporter to Sudha Murthy: Has communal politics taken more precedence in the Karnataka elections. <br><br>Sudha Murthy &#8211; I really don&#39;t worry about those things. <br><br>Obviously why would you worry madam. It doesn&#39;t affect you. It affects only the oppressed minority communities. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S7i1aW3Iwv\">pic.twitter.com\/S7i1aW3Iwv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Drunk Journalist (@drunkJournalist) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/drunkJournalist\/status\/1656202407653818369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;No one believes that I, a 72-year-old simple lady, can be the mother-in-law of the Prime Minister.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Murty hit the headlines last month when she credited her daughter with steering Mr Sunak into No10.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/16\/13\/71043665-12089595-image-a-41_1684241710868.jpg\" alt=\"Sudha Murty, wife of billionaire Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy and mother of the PM's wife Akshata, was appearing on the Kapil Sharma chat show in India\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sudha Murty, wife of billionaire Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy and mother of the PM&#8217;s wife Akshata, was appearing on the Kapil Sharma chat show in India&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/04\/28\/18\/70360967-12026287-image-a-7_1682703262155.jpg\" alt=\"Ms Murty said after she wrote down Downing Street - where her daughter Akshata lives with Rishi Sunak (pictured) - as her temporary address on a form the border guard looked at her and said: 'Are you joking?'\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Murty said after she wrote down Downing Street &#8211; where her daughter Akshata lives with Rishi Sunak (pictured) &#8211; as her temporary address on a form the border guard looked at her and said: &#8216;Are you joking?&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The philanthropist and author proclaimed that she was &#8216;able to succeed in making my husband a businessman&#8217;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She added with great pride: &#8216;But my daughter has made her husband Prime Minister of the UK.&#8217;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Murty also disclosed that she had persuaded Mr Sunak to fast every Thursday in honour of a Hindu guru the family worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akshata has praised her mother for teaching her the values of &#8216;hard work, humility and selflessness&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Murty was the only female student at an engineering college she studied at in the late 1960s in Karnataka and was admitted on the condition that she only ever wore a sari, never spoke to male students and did not visit the canteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1974, she became the first female engineer to be hired by the TATA group, India&#8217;s leading auto manufacturer and worked in Pune, south India after famously writing to the firm&#8217;s boss to complain about the fact that they did not hire females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She gave up a scholarship to study in the US so that she could be a &#8216;champion&#8217; for Indian women in the engineering industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After meeting her husband, she helped him set up consulting and IT services firm Infosys in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is now worth around \u00a350billion, with Akshata&#8217;s stake valued at hundreds of millions of pounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rishi Sunak&#8217;s Indian mother-in-law has revealed border staff thought she was pranking them about staying in Downing Street during a visit to the UK. Sudha Murty, wife of billionaire Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, said she wrote down the historic address on a form. 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